Margaret Gelling (1924–2009)
Author of Signposts to the Past: Place Names and the History of England
About the Author
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Works by Margaret Gelling
Associated Works
The Winchester Mint: And Coins and Related Finds from the Excavations of 1961-71 (2012) — Contributor — 2 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1924-11-29
- Date of death
- 2009-04-24
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- England
UK - Birthplace
- Manchester, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Birmingham, England, UK
- Education
- University of Oxford(St Hilda's College)
Chislehurst Grammar School - Occupations
- toponymist
author
lecturer - Relationships
- Gelling, Peter (husband)
- Organizations
- Society of Antiquaries
English Place-Name Society (president) - Awards and honors
- British Academy (1998)
Order of the British Empire (Officer, 1995) - Short biography
- Margaret Joy Midgley attended Oxford University and became a lecturer at the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford. In 1952, she married Peter Gelling, an archeologist and professor at the University of Birmingham. Margaret Gelling became a specialist in the study of place names (toponymy). Her published works included Signposts to the Past (1978) and The Landscape of Place-Names (2000), which she co-published with Ann Cole. Prof. Gelling served as president of the English Place-Name Society and was a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London. She was elected to the British Academy and appointed OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II in 1965.
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The landscape of place-names by Margaret Gelling
This important book is a study of the type of settlement-name which defines the settlement by reference to a landscape feature, as found in Britain south of the Forth-Clyde line. It covers a large range of place-name elements, most of them English, but some in Welsh, Gaelic and Norse. At every point in this exhaustive study, the authors are concerned to elucidate the precise meanings of the names, and their importance as evidence for early activities such as subsistence farming and travel. The book is a major rewrite of Margaret Gelling's previous best-selling work, Place-Names in the Landscape , here substantially increased in size and illustrated with explanatory diagrams and maps by Ann Cole. It has a full index and an introduction which places the material in its historical context. There are 70 illustrations. Margaret Gelling is the author of a great many articles and several books on English place-name studies, for which she received the O.B.E. in 1995. She became a senior fellow of the British Academy in 1998. Ann Cole is a geographer who has also written and lectured widely on relationships between place-names and geography.… (more)
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- Works
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- Also by
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- Members
- 148
- Popularity
- #140,180
- Rating
- 4.3
- Reviews
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- ISBNs
- 29